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Can Anyone Recommend Any Good Books?
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Generally I prefer non-fiction and political and military history is my favourite genre.
I like books that are very factual and not politically biased by the author. I like survivor memoirs too.
Any suggestions appreciated.
I like books that are very factual and not politically biased by the author. I like survivor memoirs too.
Any suggestions appreciated.
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I haven't read the book so I don't know what angle it is written from (ie during his captivity or his adjustment to life following captivity).
Go and get yourself a nice Fleurie, M'dear...
I haven't read the book so I don't know what angle it is written from (ie during his captivity or his adjustment to life following captivity).
Go and get yourself a nice Fleurie, M'dear...
project gutenberg
yeah who wrote dat den ? no no it is a free site where you can download texts of books
schiller - history of the 30 y war should be there
I think Churchill early books are there - nile campaigns etc
quite a few confederate diaries
there are still in copyright so you may have to buy
witch of endor - great war turkish POW
florence farmborough - nurse at the russian front
well met by moonlight - WW2 memoirs
I am doing soldier sahib - john nicholson
also - hero of delhi - also about Jack Nicholson
yeah who wrote dat den ? no no it is a free site where you can download texts of books
schiller - history of the 30 y war should be there
I think Churchill early books are there - nile campaigns etc
quite a few confederate diaries
there are still in copyright so you may have to buy
witch of endor - great war turkish POW
florence farmborough - nurse at the russian front
well met by moonlight - WW2 memoirs
I am doing soldier sahib - john nicholson
also - hero of delhi - also about Jack Nicholson
These two are from my collection, both quite old so may be difficult to get hold of except through a library.
1. Hostage in Peking, by English journalist Anthony Grey.
I read it while convalescing from an operation in the early Seventies and it kept me absorbed but horrified during this period. It covers Grey's 2 years in solitary confinement in a Chinese jail during Mao's Cultural Revolution, an imprisonment which received widespread condemnation at home. Based on secret diaries he smuggled out on his release.
2. Wake Up It's a Crash by Earl Moorhouse.
Written by a survivor of the first 747 disaster, it covers the event and his escape (with his wife and two sons) from the burning aircraft which crashed shortly after takeoff in Nairobi. 98 survived, 59 were killed. One to save for the Departure Lounge possibly !
1. Hostage in Peking, by English journalist Anthony Grey.
I read it while convalescing from an operation in the early Seventies and it kept me absorbed but horrified during this period. It covers Grey's 2 years in solitary confinement in a Chinese jail during Mao's Cultural Revolution, an imprisonment which received widespread condemnation at home. Based on secret diaries he smuggled out on his release.
2. Wake Up It's a Crash by Earl Moorhouse.
Written by a survivor of the first 747 disaster, it covers the event and his escape (with his wife and two sons) from the burning aircraft which crashed shortly after takeoff in Nairobi. 98 survived, 59 were killed. One to save for the Departure Lounge possibly !
The Rest I Will Kill - by Brian McGinty.
A well-researched, astonishing, true American Civil War sea story. Copies for about a fiver from ABE Books. (Montague Amiel was an umpteenth times removed cousin of mine).
Any of the (mainly WWII) spy books by Ben Macintyre, especially Double Cross. The True Story of the D-Day Spies.
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War.
(Watch Ben on YouTube)
The Great Hedge of India by Roy Moxham. Another of history's forgotten tales.
A well-researched, astonishing, true American Civil War sea story. Copies for about a fiver from ABE Books. (Montague Amiel was an umpteenth times removed cousin of mine).
Any of the (mainly WWII) spy books by Ben Macintyre, especially Double Cross. The True Story of the D-Day Spies.
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War.
(Watch Ben on YouTube)
The Great Hedge of India by Roy Moxham. Another of history's forgotten tales.